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3.59 AVERAGE
3.59 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I picked up this book after seeing yet another reference to the movie adaptation, since I'm more squeamish about violence in visual form over text, and was shocked to find out that this might be more graphic in that sense. I still felt a sense of distance from the various horrors in text form, and despite there being some quite disturbing scenes, it started getting old near the end of the book so the psychological effect was lessened. Overall, this felt like a book that would work a little better if several things about it were pared down, such as the extreme superficiality portrayed with excess descriptions. I didn't really enjoy reading this book, but unlike some instances where I still find a work intriguing despite that this story was not holding my interest that strongly.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Torture, Cannibalism, Murder, Classism
Moderate: Hate crime, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Lesbophobia
Minor: Pedophilia, Excrement, Abortion
“there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there. It is hard for me to make sense on any given level. Myself is fabricated, an aberration. I am a noncontingent human being”
amazing !
amazing !
dark
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Man, this was wild! Thought I'd never finish it. Marvellous book.
challenging
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
There are murders but as far as I grasped it, just in his mind, Bateman has some kind of mental sickness (beside being shallow, sexist, racist and narcissistic).
"I’m having a sort of hard time paying attention because my automated teller has started speaking to me, sometimes actually leaving weird messages on the screen, in green lettering, like “Cause a Terrible Scene at Sotheby’s” or “Kill the President” or “Feed Me a Stray Cat,” and I was freaked out by the park bench that followed me for six blocks last Monday evening and it too spoke to me."
"I’m having a sort of hard time paying attention because my automated teller has started speaking to me, sometimes actually leaving weird messages on the screen, in green lettering, like “Cause a Terrible Scene at Sotheby’s” or “Kill the President” or “Feed Me a Stray Cat,” and I was freaked out by the park bench that followed me for six blocks last Monday evening and it too spoke to me."
I really dug this book! I have a full review on my blog.
dark
funny
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes